Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA man collapsed and died at University Hospital Ayr following an “unreasonable delay” to carry out a CT scan on him, a watchdog has revealed.The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) claimed that an early CT scan would have identified the presence of an aneurysm in the patient.The body also claimed that action to diagnose the man’s aneurysm should have happened sooner than it did.The case centres on a complaint made to the SPSO by the family of a man known only as ‘Mr A’ over his care and treatment.He was admitted to the hospital with suspected renal colic, which is a type of pain experienced when urinary stones block part of the urinary.
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